Monday, September 5, 2016

Where is your hope?

Heb 13:20  Now the God of peace, that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great shepherd of the sheep, through the blood of the everlasting covenant,
Heb 13:21  Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

God of peace- God the Father it was He who brought our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ up from the dead. Jesus Christ our GREAT Shepherd, was raised from the dead by HIS FATHER. And it is God the Father who WILL make us perfect in every good work to do His will. God the FATHER will work in US what is wellpleasing in His sight and He'll do this through Jesus Christ our Savior!

We have to believe this! We have trust, to have faith!  If we truly believe God the Father raised Jesus Christ His only begotten son from the dead then we must truly believe God will work in us!  And it's not a belief that means our lives will be pain free, care free, happy and wonderful, it means that we believe that our God will work in us, refining us, prepare us for His heavenly kingdom. We can't know why we are called to endure the agonizing heartaches of this life- the emotional tortures, the physical abuses, the mental tragedies. We can know that they are ALL TEMPORARY to eternity. No matter WHAT we are enduring it will end eventually. If we are tortured to death, if we are living in chronic agony, it too is temporary to one thing and one thing only-- ETERNITY.  Our TREASURE is in HEAVEN, our TREASURE is heaven where our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST truly is preparing a place for us to live.

1Pe 1:21  Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.

Our faith and hope is in GOD- we KNOW He raised our Savior from the grave and gave Him glory forever!
Our faith is NOT in ourselves or any person whatsoever, but GOD.

Gal 4:6  And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father.

God sends forth the SPIRIT of His Son into our hearts and we do cry ABBA FATHER!

Joh 5:28  Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice,
Joh 5:29  And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.

ALL in the graves will HEAR HIS VOICE.

Tell me- I'm asking once again because I have to ask- tell me if there is NO ONE in the grave because they've all risen to their fate already, then who is it that hears from the grave?  Does anyone in a grave hear a thing right now? NO!

Ecc_9:5  For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The dead KNOW NOT ANYTHING!

Ecc_9:10  Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

There is NOTHING in the grave.  So instead of us believing we go into death's sleep of nothingness we've concocted instant spirit life after death so we don't have to believe we go to where there is nothing- no device, no knowledge, no wisdom, where we do not know anything.  Satan has helped us manufacture a whole lie that has taken in virtually everyone.  And those who believe the lie and refuse the truth, they will hear Christ's calling them from the grave but it will not be to the resurrection of life.

We have HOPE in Christ our Savior through our LORD and SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST! THIS IS OUR ONLY HOPE, our ONLY TRUE HOPE when all in life falls apart around us, and even more so when all is right in our lives when we have a tendency to think we have no need of hope because we have all we desire. We need our true HOPE, our true happiness, HEAVEN with our SAVIOR JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!

Please, Lord, please HELP US to be YOURS! Work YOUR WILL in US! PLEASE through the SPIRIT, please! We would be YOURS FOREVER!

AMEN.

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